Mayor Ed Lee says he won’t run, but that hasn’t stopped a progressive group from putting together a slick campaign to convince him to put his name on the ballot in November. The buzz over that drive has been growing since blogger Michael Petrelis spotted two political operatives and photojournalist Luke Thomas staging shots for the campaign outside Rainbow Grocery earlier this month.
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My Nonsense File has been pretty empty since the kids’ meal toy ban, so I have been wondering what the militantly hypersensitive types have been up to. Something came across my desk that is so perfect in its absurdity that I cannot believe it is true. I am both sad and giddy to report this is real.
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Ed Lee, the first Chinese-American mayor of San Francisco, was sworn into office Tuesday afternoon amid a large audience that filled up City Hall’s rotunda to celebrate the historic moment.The 58-year-old Glen Park resident was surrounded and praised by San Francisco’s political elite, including the power brokers who helped his ascension into the most powerful post in The City, former mayors Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom, and Chinatown Chamber of Commerce consultant Rose Pak.
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Before the board chamber became filled with real emotion - expressed in many of the new supervisors' tearful comments - part of the room was treated to self-aggrandizement, in the form of brash comments made to the press by Chinatown power broker Rose Pak.
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The ideological rift on the Board of Supervisors persists on the Board of Supervisors on Saturday, after three core progressives on the board refused to back Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to serve a second two-year term.
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Friday morning, Supervisor Chris Daly told The San Francisco Examiner: “Why not cut out the middle man and just make Rose Pak the next mayor.” Pak, a political heavyweight in Chinatown and a close ally of former Mayor Willie Brown, is largely credited for ensuring Lee secures the interim mayor appointment.
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Supervisor Chris Daly has been critical of the Board of Supervisors majority support for City Administrator Ed Lee.
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Don’t expect Ed Lee to be celebrating his possible appointment as interim mayor in The City.
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